Sacachispas

Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas is a professional football club based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.

This article is about the Guatemalan club. For the Argentine club, see Sacachispas Fútbol Club.
Sacachispas
Full nameClub Social y Deportivo Sacachispas
Nickname(s)El Equipo de la "S" (The "S" Team)
Los Muteros (The Muteros)
FoundedJune 15, 1949; 74 years ago
GroundEstadio Las Victorias
Capacity9,000
ChairmanAlexander Hernández
Head CoachWilder Galicia
LeaguePrimera División
Clausura 2023Group B 8th

The team plays in the Primera División, the second tier of Guatemalan football. Their home stadium is the Estadio Las Victorias.

The club has also played in the Liga Mayor, having reached their best position in the 1995–96 season, when they were runners-up.[1] They have been playing in the second division since 2021.

History

Nicknamed Los Muteros,[2] the club was founded as a result of two meetings. The first, in the south-west corner of Ismael Cerna´s Park, was attended by the distinguished citizens Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Josué Goshop, Héctor Antonio Monroy, Jorge González and Manuel Samayoa, on June 15, 1949; and the second meeting was near Colegio Amigos, where the Estadio Las Victorias now stands. Neftalí Aguilar, Caleb Goshop, Neco Velásquez, Enrique Valdés, Gata Cuellar, Ronald Williams, Mincho Paz, Lipe Franco, Quincho Díaz, Chentío Castañeda, Edmundo Rivera, Pío Martínez and Armando Portillo, and the people in the first meeting, were all at the second meeting.
The first uniform was a white jersey with white shorts. Their first coach was the Governor of Chiquimula, Colonel Guadalupe López Ochoa who got new uniforms: a white jersey with blue stripes, and white shorts.

The name

Many of the footballers had their headquarters in the Roxi barbershop, owned by Carlos Enrique Morales Hernández aka Quique. One night in a players' meeting, one customer who came from El Salvador told them about an Argentine movie showing in that country, Pelota de Trapo (Ball Rag). The movie was about a group of kids who play with the name Sacachispas. He suggested that name for the Chiquimula football team. That led to the current name of the Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Chile CHI Claudio Santis
2 DF Guatemala GUA Ricardo Blanco
3 DF Guatemala GUA Brandon Yaquián
4 DF Guatemala GUA Rolman Sandoval
6 DF Guatemala GUA Luis Revolorio
9 FW Guatemala GUA Kevin Bordón
10 FW Guatemala GUA Andy Palencia
11 MF Costa Rica CRC José Sánchez
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 DF Guatemala GUA Abel Miranda
17 DF Guatemala GUA Allan López
18 FW Colombia COL Juan Arizala
23 GK Guatemala GUA Jonathan Reyes
27 MF Guatemala GUA Luis Cos
91 MF Guatemala GUA Kevin García
92 MF Guatemala GUA Brolin Valdizón
99 FW Guatemala GUA Kevin Macareño

Notable former players
  • Guatemala Yony Flores
  • Guatemala Pablo Solórzano
  • Guatemala Marco Rivas
  • Guatemala Rigoberto Hernández
  • Brazil Allan Kardeck
  • Ecuador Diego Ávila
  • Argentina Leandro Rodríguez
  • Mexico Omar López
  • Uruguay Dany González

List of coaches
  • Chile Sergio Pardo
  • Uruguay Alejandro Larrea (2020–2021)
  • Argentina Diego Cerruti (2021)
  • Guatemala Wilder Galicia (2021– )

Honours

National titles
  • Liga Mayor B: 1
1992
  • Segunda División: 2
1993
Torneo Clausura 2010
  • Copa Amistad: 1
2007

References
  1. Guatemala 1995/1996 – RSSSF
  2. CLUB DEPORTIVO SACACHISPAS – LigaPrimeraDivision (in Spanish)


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